US Army School of Nursing - Taps Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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I- aon. m. . (ieneral ? ospital, J?o. 3 Colon ia, X. J. Representative, Adkl.mdk Hughes 0m Bapg at Colonia Oct. 15. Well, we ' re all here. There are ihirty-six of u.s. all lalkiiiLj at once. Oh, do you come from X ' ermont? 1 come from Park I ' lace my.self. Ves, 1 j, ' Ot just a dozen and a half collars and cuff.s. and two lairs of shoes. Jusl whai ihe circular said. Isn ' t she stunning? And she shakes hands with everyone! It has heen a long and wearv day, so 1 guess we ' ll sleep well in our new beds. ( )ct. It). Pep all gone. Why do they insist on sticking needles into us ' )ct. 17. Thev have the strangest signs along the Iwardwalk. cl. 18. lust before we came they had a terrible tire. So we are doing guard dut - in ( luarters. Alarion told the boys we carry guns, !)ul we don ' t. ( )ct. ,il. Susan was seen oni last night. There was a full moon. Xov. 10. We liad our dance last night. .And we wore evening dresses, too. The officers thought the floor was good, though I don ' t see how fliry knew. Dec. 10. Classes are in full swing, but ImtsI in the liearls of the student nurses is bacteriology. Ian. 1. Xew ' er.r ' s dance last night. Moonlight waltz- -confetti. Hand shaking — horns. Some doings ! l el). 1. Mary signed a pass for a patieni yesterday. l ' unn - thing -it wasn ' t (luestioned. But ihen the guards can ' t read luiglish not that Marv is English. March 15, At last we are among the best dressed women of the world. Probation is over. We have our street uniforms. .April 1. We made a pile of money last night al a cami al. (ioing to get a top for Maud. Who is Maud? How do we know: we never rode in her. June 1 . l-dur little mirses, .sitliiiR ncath a tree, .AloiiK came a Major and tlicii there were three. Three little nurse.s. looking very blue: A Captain toddled up and then there were two. Two little nurses, feeling tliey ' d been done ; But along came a Lieut, and then there was one. One little nursic, ready for a cry ; Private saunters up — hut be walks right by. luly . 1. tk)od-bve, Colonia. We rode away in a horrid old bu.s — on our ay to Fox Hills. f)ne of the boys wrote such a sweet poem : We miss our little Studeni Nurses. W ho carried on, ' mid Doughboy curses. Brought on by ether ' s fumes : Who toiled and cleaned and folded gauze, . ' nd never faltered in the cause. Who rose at dawn and studied late. Few privileges they could rate. For they were still in training. 1921 one hundred and scvcnly-lhrci

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V. ft6.a ' Q maemS , , CAMP CUSTER 1. SmiKNTs Past Time 6. Miss DoucHtRTv asd Miss Chaffee 2. OuK First Sorkow 7. Camp Custer 3. Affiliation 8. Barracks D 4. Blue-I!IRI)s Oct. 21st, 1918 9. Bathinx Beach 5. Affiliation at Union Hospital, Minn.. Oct. 21, 1919 -1921 1 one hundred and seventy-four